S1E7
End Game
The Queen's Gambit · 2020-10-23 · 68 min
FLICKFEEL
79
from 27 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
A visit from an old friend forces Beth to reckon with her past and rethink her priorities — just in time for the biggest match of her life.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
60
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
40
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 27 comments — 14 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 14 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“The scene where she goes down to the basement and finds all of Mr. Shaibel's memorabilia was incredible”
earwig20▲ 359about 5–15% inread it ↗
“I also really liked it when she looks up at the ceiling near the end and everyone starts copying her”
earwig20▲ 359about 90–95% inread it ↗
“The ending broke me 💔Mr. Shaibel’s photos and newspaper clippings of Beth on the wall 💔Beth never visiting Shaibel before his death and then crying while holding the photo of young Beth and Shaibel together 💔Beth clearly did not deserve Beltik, Benny, the Twins, Townes, Jolene but they helped her selflessly anyway 💔Jolene is such a badass. Her digging Beth out of the hole when she worked so hard for everything she earned was so wholesome 💔Shaibel finally got international press credit when Beth became world champion but he was not around to see it 💔The final scene of Beth playing chess for enjoyment again and not judgement/competition”
majestic_toast▲ 204about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I love seeing it come full circle like this at the end, a casual play. I was seriously worried it was going to be a dark ending, with her sauntering up to a drugstore to celebrate, but she definitely grew above that. I love how she throws the political talking points plan to instead just see and hear and meet real people playing.”
KittenTitterBums▲ 84about 75–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Scott Frank
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Matthew Dennis Lewis as Matt
Russell Dennis Lewis as Mike
Sergio Di Zio as Beth's Father
Peter Gilbert Cotton as Lutheran Minister
Charlotte Lucas as Mrs. Dodge
Nicky Goldie as Mrs. Blocker
John Schwab as Mr. Booth- KKonstantin Frank as Russian Tournament Director